Francisco de Goya

Isabel Lobo de Porcel

Isabel Lobo de Porcel
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1804 - 1805
Ubicación
The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Dimensiones
82 x 54 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
The National Gallery
Ficha: realización/revisión
16 Mar 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(NG1473)
Historia

This work came from the Porcel y Zayas collection, Granada, and that of Andrés Urzáiz, in Madrid. The National Gallery purchased it from Urzáiz's heirs in 1896.

Análisis artístico

Doña Isabel Lobo de Porcel was the wife of Antonio Porcel, officer of the State Secretariat, meaning that she was a lady of the upper middle class. She appears here, in this half-length portrait, in front of a greenish background and with her head turned to the right, one hand resting on her lap and the other hidden below her dress. The artist has depicted her as the typical Goya female figure, or maja, wearing a lace mantilla which falls down over her shoulders and is gathered up at the back of her head to make a pretty adornment. Doña Isabel's posture is a carefree one, and her face grabs the viewer's attention with its large eyes, full lips and rosy complexion. The strong light source accentuates the colours, especially in the mantilla, the lace of which, on this occasion, Goya has chosen not to render with great precision, preferring more rapid, freer brushstrokes.

X-rays of the portrait have revealed that, painted underneath this lady was the figure of a man. The faces of both are almost perfectly superimposed, so that one of the man's dark eyebrows shows through in the face of his successor, making a dark shadow near her chin.

Exposiciones
  • Goya
    Nationalmuseum
    Stockholm
    1994
    consultant editors Juan J. Luna and Görel Cavalli-Björkman. From October 7th 1994 to January 8th 1995
  • Goya. La imagen de la mujer
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2001
    from October 30th 2001 to February 10th 2002. Exhibitied also at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10th to June 2nd 2002, consultant editor Francisco Calvo Serraller
Bibliografía
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 166, cat. 453
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 198, cat. 817
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 330, cat. 509
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. III, p. 154
  • CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco (comisario)
    Goya, la imagen de la mujer
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado y Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2001
    pp. 262 y 263 (il.), cat. 70
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